Python解析日期格式，忽略字符串的部分

I want' to parse dates in this format, but ignore parts of the string. 'Wed, 27 Oct 1770 22:17:00 GMT' From what I have gathered, datetime does not support time zones very well. Which is fine, I really just want to ignore the timezone part of the string, without having to do string manipulation on it. Is there something I can replace %Z with below to say "any string here" and parse dates as such? Also, I don't understand why it will parse timezones like PST, GMT but not EST. It doesn't seem to attach tzinfo in any case anyways, not sure what types of string its really looking for the %Z portion.I want' to parse dates in this format, but igno